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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CACTUS FLOWER. French sex farces center around a door. Through it, one lover rushes. Behind it, the other lover hides. When it creaks open, it suggests suspicion. When it slams, it declares the end of the affair. In this latest Paris import, Actors Barry Nelson and Lauren Bacall and Director Abe Burrows make frequent and funny...
...Dudley White. In Boston, lawyers and businessmen have found that bicycles are the way to beat the traffic jams on their way to and from work. Radically new bike designs have also spurred the sport. Today's bike (which can cost up to $150 for a fancy French import) is lightweight, comes with ten or more gears, which take most of the effort out of climbing hills, and easily removable wheels that allow the bike to fit into the trunk...
...bonanza at Barrow will treble Australia's production of crude, reduce the amount of foreign exchange that it uses to import oil (now $280 million annually), and guarantee its future as one of the world's fastest-growing new oil sources. Together with the fairly new 10,000-bbl. wells at Moonie and Alton in the east, the find is probably the most important economic development in Australia since Merino sheep were introduced...
Welcome Dollars. Oil is only one part of a boom in minerals that has lured foreign companies into a rush for riches and revamped the economy of a continent. Ten years ago, Australia had to import all of its aluminum; until six years ago, iron-ore exports were forbidden because the government believed there was only enough to supply domestic needs for a generation. All that negative thinking has been swept away by recent discoveries of natural gas, bauxite, copper, manganese, silver, uranium, tin, nickel, zinc and lead. Coal exports have jumped from $26 million in 1962 to $68 million...
U.N.C.L.E. may end up crying aunt as Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his partner Mrs. Peel (Diana Rigg) kick up all kinds of heels on this fine British import series...